How much do I charge to re-write the content on someone's website?

[Emma Kisby Harvey]

I am a new freelance writer. Do I charge an hourly rate or per word or page? I need to be realistic as I am new, but the person who has offered me the gig wants a price.

[Go with the flow]

This is a SCAM.
Re-writing is 100% scam, scam, scam.

Get a real job, with a real employer, at a real location, for real money.

[Marius]

For writing/rewriting, the price is calculated per word count. A freelance writer can ask for $5 / 500 words article, but for rewriting the costs are half...I usually pay $2 / 500 words article to be rewritten and $3-$5 for an article.

[Jo W]

Get your terms of business and costs worked out before you start touting your services. Nothing looks more amateurish than this sort of dithering. Up to you to decide how to charge - word count is the norm for articles, but web pages don't work out quite like that.

Get the contract signed before you write a word - and if you don't have a contract, draft that now!

[Jake]

I'm only familiar with per article pricing, assuming an article is about 500 words, a basic grade original article cam be bought for around $3, rewriting is generally considered a lower skill than original articles so I would imagine $1.50 to $2 per article might apply, these figures are for articles written primarily to gain search engine ranking. Quality authority sites pay more like $10 - $75 for magazine quality articles by respected authors.

You can review the project cost on sites like odesk.com, freelancer.com that may give you some reference figures.

Here are a couple of example article brokers that pay for better quality original works
constant-content.com, textbroker.com, thecontentauthority.com